Weekly API.Report For March 2nd, 2015

I am a couple days late on this weeks API.Report, after being sick last week, taking the weekend to recover--at least I got it done. The process is proving to very valuable to my understanding of what is going on, so I predict it will continue. 

The Weekly API.Report represents the best of what I've read throughout the week, and is only what I personally felt should be showcased. Each news item comes with a link, and some thoughts I had after curating the piece of API related news. I'm trying to break down stories into as coherent buckets as I can, but it remains something that is ever changing for me, but ultimately I will settle on a clear definition for each of the research areas.

I am a big fan of any API 101 work out there, helping on-board new users, and industries:

I thought this was interesting - around open data and addresses:

We will continue to see open data and APIs impacting agriculture:

I'm working hard to push for new tooling around popular API definition formats:

Some interesting movement on several API deployment fronts:

Great advice and insight when it comes to API design:

API goings on at API conferences, and meetups:

Only two API integration stories worth showcasing this week:

Lots of rich API management related news stories, helping me understand how providers are operating:

This was some of my thoughts on what types of API tooling I'd like to see emerge in the space:

Some interesting news out of the API driven automobile space:

I am working on a similar report, so I was happy to see other research to stimulate the banking API conversation:

Mostly my own business of APIs thoughts, but a couple of interesting additions to learn from:

An interesting CDN API story:

A few of my thoughts on generating client code using API definitions:

It is really interesting to watch the giants battle it out in the world of cloud computing:

Also keeping eye on the leading, API driven cloud storage and document providers:

I thought Matrix was interesting enough to showcase as an API communication story:

My efforts to keep track on the latest containerization stories:

I'd like to see more stories, and open data and API work around crime resources:

I'm going to have to get better at breaking out data, into more meaningful categories (the list is kind of big):

So many areas of my research are interesting, and the data center has central role:

A few stories involving databases, and the potential for deploying APis from common data connections:

Interesting to better understand API discovery from Microsoft, around their office suite:

A politics of APIs discussion I haven't seen before:

Education related API stories always make me happy--there just aren't enough:

Two interesting embeddable API stories this week:

Another important conversation going on in 2015 is around encryption:

An area we need more activity is when it comes to energy APIs:

Lots of momentum with APIs in the federal government:

Many layers to FinTech, and I am trying to give different views of the financial API discussion:

EH, insurance, quantified-self, and government regulation when in the healthcare industry:

An area I will continue to carve off the bigger IoT discussion is APIs used in the home:

I'm feeling like HTTP/2 is going to keep moving the ground under our feet in coming months:

An interesting take on image search, and I'm seeing lots of activity over at Autodesk:

As the enterprise beats the IoT drum, the rhythm is focused on industrial implementations:

Some quick takes on API integration:

Like data, I'm going to have to get better at organizing and breaking areas of of the Internet of Things (IoT) area:

I like to keep an eye on companies who are hiring for API focused roles, and I think the last one is really interesting, and a little scary:

I'm guessing IBM and the Watson team will dominate the machine learning and AI APIs conversation:

Nice mapping roundup from PW:

Just a couple microservice related thoughts from the week:

A couple more big moves when it comes to mobile, from New Relic and Akamai:

Some API monetization stories, ranging from the sane to crazy over at AT&T:

Music is always an important discussion when it comes to APIs:

Keeping a close eye on these data center, and networking related stories:

Im going to do a little hacking on Microsoft's new notes API, to see what it delivers:

Couple of open source discussions to highlight:

Keeping an eye on who is partnering across API space:

I'm not sure what category to put this into yet:

I think its clear that Google wants to play in payments, if they can find their footing:

Interesting usage of YouTube (which has APIs), with police story out of Seattle:

I predict lots of investment in open data and API driven tools in politics and elections:

Lots of great privacy discussions to follow this last week:

I guess I'm still tracking on quantified self, stories that catch my attention seem to be few and far between:

Pubnub rock'n real-time, with some interesting implementations:

Handful of reciprocity stories:

Another regulation blip from federal government, this time in healthcare:

Scraping will continue to play big role:

The API SDK conversation continues to move forward:

Lots to think about on the security front:

Maybe another area I'll carve off IoT is smart watches:

Single Page Applications (SPA) and APIs are getting interesting:

I thought this was an interesting spreadsheets story, and there are lessons there for the API space:

Google making some terms of service (TOS) changes:

When I think of future of transportation, I think transit APIs:

One of the most important aspects around the politics of APIs is transparency:

My thoughts about how APIs and micro-services will evolve the vendor relationship:

API driven visualization is something that keeps me excited about APIs recently:

In my opinion, wholesale APIs will be an important side effect of the containerization of APIs:

WordPress is still an import platform development kit (PDK), especially if Twitter is tackling themselves:

Updated November 27, 2015: Links were updated as part of switch from Swagger to OADF (READ MORE)